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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by virmundi on Monday June 05, 2017 @11:39AM (#14488363)
That is still a reasonable period of time to make them low risk. So we get a market flooded by cash. And now due the ubiquity of degrees, many are worthless but necessary. They are becoming the high school degree.
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by learc83 on Monday June 05, 2017 @12:03PM (#14488616)
The risk doesn't really have anything to do with "a market flooded by cash".

The government distributes loans because legislation forces them to--not because they are low risk--and the money comes directly from the department of education not private investments. Private loans are only about 7% of the loan disbursements.

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